Party & Programme > Democratic centralism
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
Collapsing democratic centralism
11 Dec 2003
The following statement was issued by John Pearson before his expulsion. Despite his fulsome apologies he makes clear his intention to continue voting against CPGB positions. He would do so either when he claimed not to have received "prior notice" or under cover of a mandate from Stockport Socialist Alliance
Rhetoric and hot air
20 Nov 2003
European Social Forum: Too much hot air
Democrats form platform
12 Nov 2003
Some 30 people - varying over the course of the day - met in Birmingham on Saturday November 8 to form a Democracy platform in the Socialist Alliance. Mike Macnair reports
Overturn party ban
12 Nov 2003
The participation of political parties has become one of the most controversial issues within the ESF, says Tina Becker
Party notes: Democratic centralism unites and directs
21 Aug 2003
Jack Conrad continues the debate on revolutionary organisation following discussion at the CPGB's Communist University
For genuine democratic centralism
11 Jul 2002
"Through the fullest, most open debate we seek to achieve unity in action and a common world outlook." This statement appears in the third paragraph of the revised 'What we fight for' column. John Pearson disagrees with the party majority.
Programme and party
07 Feb 2002
The SWP's main problem is that it is "not big enough", says Paul Foot. Size isn't everything, reckons Mark Fischer
For a paper and partyism
29 Nov 2001
Communists has always argued that within the Socialist Alliance there lies a compelling logic towards the formation of a party.
Socialist Party
25 Jan 2001
'Damaged' by principled criticism As previously reported, long-standing Socialist Party member Harry Paterson lost his appeal against expulsion (see Weekly Worker November 16). The SP's appeals board has finally produced this report of its November 11 hearing
Socialist Party in England and Wales
23 Nov 2000
Rebel signal This protest letter has been sent to the Socialist Party executive committee and, as a courtesy, to Harry Paterson, who emailed it to the Weekly Worker
Expelled for speaking out
16 Nov 2000
Harry Paterson, a long-standing member of the Socialist Party/Militant, has had his appeal against expulsion turned down. He spoke to Peter Manson of the Weekly Worker
For democratic centralism
23 Mar 2000
Harry Paterson, member of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party in England and Wales, calls for real democracy and revolutionary centralism
SWP conference
04 Nov 1999
Here we reprint short extracts from the first two of the SWP’s Pre-conference discussion bulletin. We have chosen the most interesting, or more accurately, the least dull, passages.
Statement
16 Sep 1999
Minority rights and the CPGB
29 Apr 1999
Democratic centralism